Relates to providing only plastic or composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities for use in cafeterias, mess halls, canteens, commissaries, or any other dining facility located within.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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493
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. JONES, BYRNE, McDONOUGH, SANTABARBARA, J. RIVERA,
MIKULIN, RICHARDSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, COOK,
FRIEND -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing plastic or
composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 626
2 to read as follows:
3 § 626. Eating utensils. All eating utensils provided by state correc-
4 tional facilities to individuals housed in such facilities for use in
5 cafeterias, mess halls, canteens, commissaries, or any other dining
6 facility located within, shall be made solely from plastic or another
7 composite material.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04421-01-1
